# gost
## English
### Noun

gost (plural gosts)
* Obsolete spelling of ghost.
** 1600, Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation‎, reprint edition, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 68:... may non evylle gost entre ne come unto the place that it is inne.

### Further reading

* “gost”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* GOTs, GTOs, gots, stog, togs

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

#### Alternative forms

* gast, gaast, goost, goste

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɔːst/
* Rhymes: -ɔːst

#### Noun

gost (plural gostes)
* a spiritual being; angel, devil, spirit; soul of a dead person
** 1386, Chaucer, Legend of Good Women:This nyght my faderes gost Hath in my slep so sore me tormented.This night my father's ghost has in my sore sleep, so tormented me
** 15th c., “Thomas Indie [Thomas of India]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 346, lines 212–213:The gost went to hell a pase / whils the cors lay slayn, And broght the sawles from sathanas / for which he suffred paynThe spirit went to hell while the body lay slain and brought the souls from Satan, for which he suffered pain.
** 1525, English Conquest of Ireland:The dede to areren, yuel gostes to quethen.The deed being counteracted, evil spirits being banished.
* the Holy Ghost
** Goddes gost is þe geven. — Cleanness, c1400
* A villain, scoundrel; a devil incarnate; a wicked-looking creature
** In þat doynge Paternus the monk semeþ a lewed goost. — Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 1387
* The soul of man, spiritual nature
** Ȝe cursed gostes, goþ in-to þe pyne of helle! — Seint Ieremie telleþ, c1400
** Lyfe is none quen gost is lede. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500
* A spiritual force or insight, a gift of prophecy
** A haþel in þy holde..hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes. — Cleanness, c1400
* A breath, blowing, wind; God's breath, a spiritual wind; the blowing of storm
** Gost-wynd nedefull is to recouer monnes gost þat greued is. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500
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##### Derived terms

* gosted — endowed with a spirit, immortal
* gostful — like a ghost, ghostly; spiritual
* gostli — spiritually
* gostlihede, gostlihod — spiritual conduct, spiritual love, devoutness, piety
* gostliness — spiritual matters, spirituality; devoutness, piety.

##### Descendants

* English: ghost
* Scots: gaist, gast, ghaist
* Yola: gaast

##### References

* “gōst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gost
* Alternative form of gorst

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. Numerous cognates include Catalan gust, Italian gusto and French goût.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gost m (plural gosts)
* taste (of food, drink, etc.)

#### Derived terms

* gostós

#### See also

* tastar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gostь, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡôːst/, /ɡôst/

### Noun

gȏst m (Cyrillic spelling го̑ст)
* guest
    Svakog gosta tri dana dosta. - [For] every guest three days is enough. (proverb)

#### Declension
### References

* “gost”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 1, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 542
* “gost”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gostь, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɔ́st/

#### Noun

gȍst m anim
* guest

##### Inflection

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### Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡóːst/

#### Adjective

gọ̑st (comparative gostȇjši, superlative nȁjgostȇjši)
* dense

##### Inflection

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### Further reading

* “gost”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “gost”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Vilamovian
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gost m (plural gest)
* guest

## Zazaki
### Etymology

Compare Persian گوشت (gušt).

### Noun

gost
* meat